20 newyork| march30–april12, 2020
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5:55 I just sleep less these days. Before, I needed my seven hours. N
eleven, midnight, and wake up at about five.
9:14 It’s actually nice that we do this exercise together. U
Last week, I took an online twerking class. I
respect for twerking—it’s really hard.
11:36 We didn’t have hand sanitizer, so I went to the deli and bought wha
had. I paid $10 for this tiny thing, and it smells h
elinor carucci’s work has always focused on the everyday—the raw,
joyful, exposed, and exposing business of humans who love each other sharing a space.
And Carucci’s own domesticity has never been so intense nor so constrained. Carucci is
sheltering in place in her 950-square-foot Manhattan apartment with her husband,
Eran, and their teenage twins, Eden and Emmanuelle. With work, exercise, mealtime,
and virtual socializing, the family tries to maintain some semblance of normalcy, but
results are mixed. “I feel like I’m getting a little used to it,” says Carucci, who is Israeli.
“But at the beginning, I had a lot of flashbacks to the Gulf War.” lisa miller
7:43 I’m cutting fruit and still looking at my phone. We feel like we’re panicking a little bit;
we’ve lost control. With the phone, at least we can stay connected.
11:24 Eran was already working when Eden woke up. This was last week, when the schools were
still figuring out the remote learning. Now Eden has to log in at school at eight in the morning.
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY ELINOR CARUCCI
